UPDATED: Campus Leftists Rage Ahead of Horowitz Speech at USC
If you’re in-the-loop of campus conservatism, you’ve heard the stories of leftist vitriol against conservative students and invited speakers. Campus leftists reserve a special kind of hatred for the few Big-Time speakers who they can’t bare to share the same planet with—protests, shout-downs, cancelled events, and the occasional pie throwing come to mind. The University of Southern California has one of those people coming to campus this week.
Conservative activist and Israel advocate David Horowitz was invited by the USC College Republicans to speak on the USC Campus this Wednesday, November 4th; and the lefties are going nuts.
This is a flyer from the USC Progressive Alliance that’s been spotted around campus:
Mr. Horowitz’s topic Wednesday will be combating campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity, so calling him an Islamophobe and racist was the easiest card to play. The quote on the flyer is controversial, but it’s also out of context.
UPDATE: Apparently, the quote on the flyer is something that was never said or written by Horowitz—The quote attributed to Mr. Horrowitz is from a piece by “Hindutva News Analysis”**:Here’s the article from FrontPage Magazine where that quote was published in a 2002 story on 9/11 terrorist Mohammed Atta titled “What makes people like Atta beasts in Human form?“
USC recently had its own experience with a Muslim scripture that called for the indiscriminate killing of Jews everywhere. Horowitz was on the front lines when the “Hadith of Hate” was banned from the USC Muslim Student Association’s university-owned website.
Last week the Students for [in-]Justice in Palestine sent out a similar e-mail to it’s members, a list of sentence fragments taken out of context. [See the e-mail here] The e-mails ends, “Students for Justice in Palestine has voted to oppose this speaker in any way possible, and I am now calling on you to help us figure out how to respond.”
“Oppose this speaker in any way possible”?
Intolerance, (violence?), and the silencing of political, social, and religious minorities on college campuses is exactly what David Horowitz has been fighting against with his Academic Freedom program. Maybe the SJP and USC [Re]gressives could learn a little lesson from their arch-nemesis this Wednesday.
Not to worry, the event will go on. And, the “opposition” will be televised, so stay tuned for video.
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This has become very common on college campuses throughout the country. Recently the University of Washington in St. Louis banned Horowitz from speaking. Last week, evidence turned up on Facebook that liberal group at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill stole hundreds of copies of a conservative paper in April. At Florida Gulf State University, a student is facing disciplinary action because he advertised a screening of ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ through campus email. Sadly, I could go on and on about these stories.
Students are fighting back though. This fall the Leadership Institute created CampusReform.org, a social mobilization site for conservative and libertarian college students to help these students with resources and training. Many of our groups have worked with Horowitz and the Freedom Center.
Campuses on the left will continue to trample over the rights of students until the conservative college students start fighting back. Blog posts like yours help expose what’s going on and tell alumni, parents, community members and the media about the stranglehold that leftists have. Please take a look at CampusReform.org and keep talking about the state of America’s college campuses.
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